JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY STUDIES IN HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCE HERBERT B. ADAMS, Editor History is past Politics and Politics are present History.—Freeman AMERICAN RELATIONS IN THE PACIFIC AND THE FAR EAST 1784-1900 BY JAMES MORTON CALLAHAN, PH. D. BALTIMORE Copyright 1901, by JOHNS HOPKINS PRESS The Lord Baltimore Press THE FRIEDENWALD COMPANY BALTIMORE, MD., U. S. A. PREFACE The following chapters on the origin and evolution of American enterprise and policy in the Pacific and the Far East are the outgrowth of a course of lectures delivered by the author in 1899-1900, before graduate students in the department of history and politics of the Johns Hopkins University. Lectures treating of the relations of the United States with Alaska and Behring Sea, Transandine America, and isthmian transit routes have been reserved for publication elsewhere. For facilitating my investigations at Washington, D. C., my sincere acknowledgments are due to Mr. Andrew H. Allen, Chief of the Bureau of Rolls and Library of the Department of State, and Messrs. A. P. C. Griffin, Chief Bibliographer, and Hugh A. Morrison, of the Library of Congress. For encouragement in this and other fields of research, I am under obligation to Professor Herbert B. Adams, of Johns Hopkins University. Johns Hopkins University, Jan. 1, 1901. JAMES MORTON CALLAHAN. |